PA and OH
Jazz, I'm surprised that a resident of Ohio is misled (mizzled) about relative distance in U.S. states. Rapunzel is in Reading, PA, which is about 300 miles from the Ohio border. You can have a lot of diversity in that distance.

Being in the export/import business, I encounter a lot of ignorance on the part of foreigners about U.S. geography. Most of all, many don't appreciate the size of the country and the distance between points. I once had a European indignantly challenge my cost estimate of about $1400 to transport something from Baltimore to Erie, PA. He thought that was outrageous, given that Baltimore is only 65 km. from the Pennsylvania border. I had to explain that Erie is about as far as you can get in PA from Baltimore, 620 km.